ERROR: Invalid setting true for option LogInfected

[Fabien Tassin]

 * Starting Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV clamav-milter
ERROR: Invalid setting true for option LogInfected [fail]

yet:

# grep LogInfected /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf
LogInfected Off

the reason is the log is bogus:

clamav-milter/clamfi.c:
====
    if(!(opt = optget(opts, "LogInfected"))->enabled || !strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Off"))
        loginfected = LOGINF_NONE;
    else if(!strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Basic"))
        loginfected = LOGINF_BASIC;
    else if(!strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Full"))
        loginfected = LOGINF_FULL;
    else {
        logg("!Invalid setting %s for option LogInfected\n", opt->strarg);
        return 1;
    }

    if((opt = optget(opts, "LogClean"))->enabled) {
        if(!strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Basic"))
            loginfected |= LOGCLN_BASIC;
        else if(!strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Full"))
            loginfected |= LOGCLN_FULL;
        else if(strcasecmp(opt->strarg, "Off")) {
            logg("!Invalid setting %s for option LogInfected\n", opt->strarg); <====== should be "LogClean"
            return 1;
        }
    }
====

and indeed:

# grep LogClean /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf
LogClean true

Changing "true" to "Basic" / "Full" / "Off" make it work.

So both the confusing log and the wrong default value should be fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: clamav 0.97.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 10 12:41:09 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: clamav
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-07-28 (712 days ago)

[Michael Tautschnig (mt-debian)]

Hi,

As just reported on Ubuntu's launchpad [1], the error message shown when an invalid config value is found for LogClean is bogus. Please see [1] for details, but basically it just boils down to replacing "LogInfected" by "LogClean" in line 560 of clamav-milter/clamfi.c.

Best,
Michael

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/808311

[Michael Tautschnig (mt-debian)]

Hi,

> Public bug reported:
>
> * Starting Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV clamav-milter
> ERROR: Invalid setting true for option LogInfected [fail]
>
> yet:
>
> # grep LogInfected /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf
> LogInfected Off
>
> the reason is the log is bogus:
>

I've just reported this to upstream as #3040, see
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3040.

>
> and indeed:
>
> # grep LogClean /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf
> LogClean true
>
> Changing "true" to "Basic" / "Full" / "Off" make it work.
>
> So both the confusing log and the wrong default value should be fixed.
>

The wrong value "true" was likely caused by the debconf question missing in
versions before 0.97.1+dfsg-1 (whilst still internally asking debconf for a
value). If you remove this line from the config file or dpkg-reconfigure
clamav-milter you should get an appropriate value in there.

Automatically fixing this problem seems to be a bit risky as we do not want to
override a user's choice/configuration, not even an invalid one.

Hope this helps,
Michael

[Acab (acab)]

Fixed in clamav-0.97.1-2-g4e9b71b,
thanks!

[Imre Gergely (cemc)]

This was fixed upstream in clamav-0.97.1-2-g4e9b71b . Since then, 0.97.2 came out, which is in Oneiric. I've tested it in Oneiric and it seems to work ok.

Setting up clamav-milter (0.97.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV clamav-milter [ OK ]
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

root@utest-oos32:~# grep LogClean /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf
LogClean Off

clamav 0.97.2 is in the process of SRU back to Natty (then backported to Lucid and Hardy) (see bug #826828).

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Marking fix released since it's fixed on the development release.

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

Just small notice from Linux newbie:
I have just upgraded clamav in Oneiric to 0.97.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 version and corresponding error appeared:
ERROR: Invalid setting true for option LogClean
solved by dpkg-reconfigure clamav-milter mentioned in #2